The nation’s top infectious diseases expert Dr. Anthony Fauci dismissed the idea that COVID-19 would be eradicated in the next several years at a webinar hosted by think tank Chatham House in November.
“We need to plan that this is something we may need to maintain control over chronically. It may be something that becomes endemic, that we have to just be careful about,” he said.
It’s likely SARS-CoV-2 is here to stay, other health experts say.
IT MIGHT BE ENDEMIC
“It appears as though this virus is likely to remain endemic in populations at least for several years, possibly indefinitely, ” Dr. Pritish Tosh, an infectious diseases physician and researcher at the Mayo Clinic said.
The four common cold coronaviruses, which are considered cousins of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, are considered endemic in most parts of the world, including the U.S., said Dr. Donald Burke, professor of epidemiology at the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health.
“We don’t notice them,” he said. “They’re transmitted, they’re constant.”
A January study found that the virus “could join the ranks of mild, cold-causing … human coronaviruses in the long run,” according to Emory University and Penn State University scientists.
THANK THE CCP
The model, published in the peer-reviewed journal Science, compares SARS-CoV-2 to four common cold coronaviruses plus the SARS and MERS viruses, which surfaced in 2003 and 2012, respectively.
Researchers determined from the model that if the novel coronavirus continues to circulate in the general population and most people are exposed to it from childhood, it could be added to the list of common colds.
However, they do admit it is hard to know what will happen five years from now.
We must thank the Chinese communists for this since they let their people travel throughout the world, but not within China, while the illness was active. Maybe the US should stop funding the CCP’s bioweapons labs. That might help with future monster viruses.
And we’d better open up if that’s the case. We don’t shut down for the flu, Measles, etc., or any endemic disease, and we can’t shut down forever, or is it just until Democrats turn us into socialists?
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“Experts say COV might be with us forever!” No shitake, Sherlock. We’ve known that SARS-CoV-2 is a coronavirus for a year. What, exactly, is our success rate in eradicating coronaviruses?
SARS-CoV-2 was never nothing more than a very bad virus. The Democrats used it a a weapon against the Trump Administration and the People of the United States. In the process they helped the Communist Chinese to disrupt the economies of the world.
What SARS-CoV-2 really showed the world was that the concept of the Big Blue City is totally bankrupt. Creating environments with 10,000 or 20,000 and even in NYC 60,000 people per square mile is just a petri dish for disease. What the Big Blue City also creates is crime and poverty.
The heartland of America never really shutdown, but the population centers closed and imposed economic heartache on the rest of the country. All shutdowns did was prolong the pain. Hundreds of years of studies involving virus outbreaks have shown us that containing a virus once it has gained a foot hold is futile. It will just run it’s course. The death count is up to almost 500,000. I doubt doing nothing, except maybe telling seniors to self quarantine would have made things worse. A fact is the Washington Bureaucrats advising the President and the Country would have done better throwing darts at a dart board. Their one dimensional advice simply could not have been worse. At least President Trump was smart enough to allow Governors to call the shots instead of pushing the Bureaucrat insanity Nationwide.
If nothing else, the SARS-CoV-2 Hoax should have told us that the power of the Federal Government to do damage to the country is far too great and we need to get back to the original concept of America being “The United States”. One of the beautiful concepts of America should be that you can move to a State that recognizes your moral values and will ensure your freedom. This is a Libertarian Concept that most Republics (at least 75,000,000 Americans) are behind. The culture war is really about National Conformity or Freedom. Everything else is a distraction. The SARS-CoV-2 Hoax has shown us just how dangerous the “one size fits all” National Conformity concept of Communist Liberal Democrats and the Big Blue City really are.
All the reports are about good numbers and a decline in new cases.
Some states are cashing in on the money related to Beer Flu cases.
The Obiden/Kamal/ValJar “transition” is underway and the burn it all down comrades can’t milk this forever.
Herd immunity? Hmm…so hmm.